Quoting some of the members of the civil society personalities, a Dhaka-based English daily on Monday reported that they will ask the search committee to pick “competent, impartial and courageous people” for constituting the five-member Election Commission.

The meeting kicked off at 4pm.

Meanwhile, the search panel has set February 1 to hold talks with another five eminent citizens.

Moreover, the search body also extended Tuesday's 11am deadline to 4pm, which it earlier fixed to collect names from political parties for the reconstitution of the EC.

The members of search committee will discuss the proposed names at 4pm Tuesday.

President Abdul Hamid on January 25 formed the six-member search committee, headed by Supreme Court’s Appallette Division Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, after holding a series of talks with 31 political parties over reconstitution of the EC.

The other members of the search committee are: Justice Obaidul Hassan, a High Court judge, Muhammed Sadique, chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC), Masud Ahmed, comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh, Prof Syed Manzoorul Islam, trustee board member of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), and Shireen Akhter, pro-vice chancellor of Chittagong University.

The tenure of the incumbent commission expires next month.

The search committee will recommend two names each for the posts of the EC chief and four election commissioners, according to a gazette notification published on January 25.

Later, the president, on the prime minister's advice, will appoint the chief election commissioner and other commissioners.

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